Sentence examples of "compensatory time off" in English
Autumn is just around the corner. It's about time the weather started cooling off.
Der Herbst ist nahe. Es war Zeit, dass sich das Wetter abkühlt.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Die Zeit hat keine Trennlinien, um ihren Fortlauf anzuzeigen. Es gibt nie ein Gewitter oder einen Fanfarenstoß, um den Beginn eines neuen Monats oder Jahres anzuzeigen. Sogar wenn ein neues Jahrhundert beginnt, sind es nur wir Sterblichen, die Glocken läuten und Pistolen abfeuern.
The new highway shaves almost an hour off my commute time.
Die neue Autobahn reduziert meine Fahrtzeit um fast eine Stunde.
Blind people sometimes develop a compensatory ability to sense the proximity of objects around them.
Blinde entwickeln manchmal eine ausgleichende Fähigkeit, die Nähe der Gegenstände um sie herum zu spüren.
It's ludicrous to continue business operations while selling off bit by bit the land on which your business depends.
Es ist einfach lächerlich, seine Geschäfte weiterzuführen, während man schrittweise das Land verkauft, von dem diese Geschäfte abhängig sind.
"Learn from your mistakes" and "Experience is the best teacher" they say, but in the long run even the best teacher gets mad, if he or she has too much to teach in too little time.
"Lern aus deinen Fehlern" und "Erfahrung ist der beste Lehrer" so sagt man, doch letzten Endes verliert selbst der beste Lehrer den Verstand, wenn er zu viel in zu kurzer Zeit unterrichten muss.
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